Care work : dreaming disability justice

Care webs : experimenting in creating collective access -- Crip emotional intelligence -- Making space accessible is an act of love for our communities -- Toronto crip city : a not-so-brief, incomplete personal history of some moments in time, 1997-2015 -- Sick and crazy healer : a not-so-brief personal history of the healing justice movement -- Crip sex movements and the lust of recognition : a conversation with E.T. Russian -- Cripping the apocalypse : some of my wild disability justice dreams -- A modest proposal for a fair trade emotional labor economy (centered by disabled, femme of color, working-class/poor genius) -- Prefigurative politics and radically accessible performance spaces : making the world to come -- Chronically ill touring artist pro tips -- Fuck the "triumph of the human spirit" : on writing Dirty River as a queer, disabled, and femme-of-color memoir, and the joys of saying fuck you to traditional abuse survivor narratives -- Suicidal ideation 2.0 : queer community leadership and staying alive anyway -- So much time spent in bed : a letter to Gloria Anzaldúa on chronic illness, coatlicue, and creativity -- Prince, chronic pain, and living to get old -- Two or three things I know for sure about femmes and suicide : a love letter -- For badass disability justice, working-class and poor-led models of sustainable hustling for liberation -- Protect your heart : femme leadership and hyper-accountability -- Not over it, not fixed, and living a life worth living : towards an anti-ableist vision of survivorhood -- Crip lineages, crip futures : a conversation with Stacey Milbern.;Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centres the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Leah writes passionately and personally about creating spaces by and for sick and disabled queer people of colour, and creative "collective access"--access not as a chore but as a collective responsibility and pleasure--in our communities and political movements. Bringing their survival skills and knowledge from years of cultural and activist work, Piepzna-Samarasinha explores everything from the economics of queer femme emotional labour, to suicide in queer and trans communities, to the nitty-gritty of touring as a sick and disabled queer artist of colour. 2018. Thanks and Acknowledgments Preface: Writing (with) a Movement from Bed Part I 1. Care Webs: Experiments in Creating Collective Access 2. Crip Emotional Intelligence 3. Making Space Accessible Is an Act of Love for out Communities 4. Toronto Crip City: A Not-So-Brief, Incomplete Personal History of Some Moments in Time, 1997-2015 5. Sick and Crazy Healer: A Not-So-Brief Personal History of the Healing Justice Movement 6. Crip Sex Moments and the Lust of Recognition: A Conversation with E.T. Russian Part II 7. Cripping the Apocalypse: Some of My Wild Disability Justice Dreams 8. A Modest Proposal for a Fair Trade Emotional Labor Economy (Centered by Disabled, Femme of Color, Working-Class/Poor Genius) 9. Prefigurative Politics and Radically Accessible Performance Spaces: Making the World to Come 10. Chronically Ill Touring Artist Pro Tips Part III 11. Fuck the "Triumph of the Human Spirit": On Writing Dirty River as a Queer, Disabled, and Femme-of-Color Memoir, and the Joys of Saying Fuck You to Traditional Abuse Survivor Narratives 12. Suicidal Ideation 2.0: Queer Community Leadership and Staying Alive Anyway 13. So Much Time Spent in Bed: A Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa on Chronic Illness, Coatlicue, and Creativity 14. Prince, Chronic Pain, and Living to Get Old 15. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure about Femmes and Suicide: A Love Letter Part IV 16. For Badass Disability Justice, Working-Class and Poor-Led Models of Sustainable Hustling for Liberation 17. Protect Your Heart: Femme Leadership and Hyper-Accountability 18. Not Over It, Not Fixed, and Living a Live Worth Living: Towards an Anti-Ableist Vision of Survivorhood 19. Crip Lineages, Crip Futures: A Conversation with Stacey Milbern Further Reading and Resources In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a tool kit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure. "Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha is a poet and essayist whose most recent book, the memoir Dirty River, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle's Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. She is also a long-time member of the disability justice movement, which advocates for the rights of the disabled. In her latest book of essays, Leah writes passionately and personally about disability justice, on subject such as the creation of care webs, collective access, and radically accessible spaces. She also imparts her own survivor skills and wisdom based on her years of activist work, empowering the disabled--in particular, those in queer and/or BIPOC communities--and granting them the necessary tools by which they can imagine a future where no one is left behind. Presently, disability justice and emotional/care work are buzzwords on many people's lips, and the disabled and sick are discovering new ways to build power within themselves and each other; at the same time, those powers remain at risk in this fragile political climate in which we find ourselves. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms. "-- Provided by publisher. "In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centres the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Leah writes passionately and personally about creating spaces by and for sick and disabled queer people of colour, and creative "collective access" -- access not as a chore but as a collective responsibility and pleasure -- in our communities and political movements. Bringing their survival skills and knowledge from years of cultural and activist work, Piepzna-Samarasinha explores everything from the economics of queer femme emotional labour, to suicide in queer and trans communities, to the nitty-gritty of touring as a sick and disabled queer artist of colour"-- "This book was written in the matrix of many sick and disabled femme of color care webs, in unceded and occupied Tkaronto/Dish With One Spoon territories, Ohlone territories (Oakland, California), and my current home in South Seattle on Duwamish territories governed by the Treaty of Point Elliot, as well as on a lot of planes, trains, and Megabuses."